PaloAlto Real-time Threat Prevention

Prevent Threats in Real-Time

Active gateway threat prevention products utilize many threat prevention technologies that frequently proxy the whole payload before scanning for viruses, spyware and malware, consequently there is unacceptable throughput performance. The lack of a true high speed threat prevention solution at the internet gateway has forced organisations to rely on a set of disparate, hard-to-manage point-products. The perfect threat prevention solution should carry out the following functions:

• Detect and block viruses, spyware, worms, and application vulnerability exploits with little or no increase in latency
• Perform at multi-Gbps throughput levels with threat prevention enabled
• Prevent propagation of malware across all applications – not just traditional applications and protocols
• Decrease operational costs with a unified policy management interface

Hardware-Accelerated, Stream-based Threat Prevention

The PA-4000 Series firewalls detect and block a broad spectrum of malware and application vulnerability exploits at multi-Gbps throughput speeds with low latency by utilizing a combination of dedicated processing and modern software features. The threat prevention engine leverages the application identity as a method of knowing accurately where to find each type of threat, thereby enhancing accuracy and performance. A stream-based architecture, as opposed to file-based, means that scanning is performed inline, as soon as the first packet hits the scan engine. And rather than scan traffic many times for different threats, Palo Alto Networks has developed a uniform signature format that searches a wide range of threats in a single pass. To make management simple, threat prevention policies are created using the same rule-based interface that drives firewall policy creation, thereby getting rid of any possible learning curve associated with multiple interfaces.

Datasheets:

• PA-4000 Series firewalls

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